Customizing Autocomplete Suggestions like IntelliSense

[Joshua Koo]

Hello again!

Sorry for spamming the group, but I'm actually quite interested to know how I could customize the filtering of suggestions returned by Tern. Right now we could customize the filtering to check for case sensitiveness, but I'm thinking of possibly adding a filtering which uses some string distance (eg. Jaro–Winkler string distance or Levenshtein distances). That allows auto-complete to be smarter (like IntelliSense I believe), that matches possible competitions even if you are making a typo.

If someone knows where I could start poking into, I'll test to see if this would be preferable behaviour in editors.

Cheers,

Joshua

[Marijn Haverbeke]

A client could add a `filter: false` property to the query that asks
for completions, which will return all possible completions. You could
then do custom filtering on the client side.

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[Joshua Koo]

Passing `filter: false` with codemirror tern server plugin indeed return all the suggestions

new CodeMirror.TernServer({

queryOptions: {

completions: {

filter: false

}

}

});

Even though I have to edit the plugin, it opens out a lot more possibilities (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2901831/algorithm-for-autocomplete)

Thanks for the advice!